"She's a POLL And She's Looking Good": Kraftwerk, The Man-Machine

Voted metropolis to avoid a zero so yay me

This was a toss-up for me between The Robots and Neon Lights and I ended up picking the latter. Way to hive-mind!

Also a member of Team MM. To be perfectly honest, I probably love Neonlicht even more, but The Man-Machine is the most perfect distillation of their vision and genius.

Classic album, hard to believe it wasn’t polled in here before.

I didn’t vote (I think?) but title track is the first Kraftwerk song I heard and the one I find the most fun to listen... something about those synths and the bouncing effect they create, also love the Moroder sound of Spacelab. Underrated song judging by the votes.

Metropolis is the one I could live without, so at least I agree with that one in the last place

re: Spacelab and Metropolis, i love those songs but i think the only reason i put them at a slightly lower tier is that that remind me of other music of that period. moroder, yes, but also some prog and tangerine dream and all sorts of stuff.

i suppose you could make a similar argument with the robots and especially the model, which use more conventional song structures. but they're both such monuments of electro-pop, imitated so many times, they're absolute classics. and then neon lights and man-machine are just off in mindblowing trailblazer land